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posted on 27 February 2008 10:17

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EMC has told customers of its Mozy backup service that prices are going up on March 1st.

Consumer or desktop MozyPro prices are static at $3.95/license and $0.5/GB data stored. The server MozyPro prices rise such that one server and 10GB capacity increases from $8.95/month to $24.45/month, a near 300 percent rise.

The cost for five servers and 20GB rises from $29.75 to $69.75/month, more than double.For ten servers and 100GB the price goes up from $89.50 to $244.50, a lot more than double.

Existing server customers with existing licenses face no rises.

EMC has introduced a new MozyEnterprise offering. An EMC mail to a customer said: "MozyEnterprise is an enhanced, highly scalable online backup and recovery solution that has been made enterprise-ready with several new features important to enterprise customers, including:

- Enhanced security through RSA, the Security Division of EMC including integrated key management, authentication and authorization security features
- Rapid enterprise-wide deployment options such as assisted activation, auto-activation and proxy support as well as physical seeding up to 2 TB for larger devices to speed delivery of first backups and facilitate rapid rollouts in an enterprise environments
- Enterprise-class availability and support options tailored to meet the more demanding performance and availability needs required by large organizations
- Economical off-site data protection for remote servers, desktops and laptops located anywhere on a network—comparable solutions cost up to 10 times more than MozyEnterprise.
"MozyEnterprise powered by EMC Fortress is available immediately in North America through EMC and its reseller partners. EMC plans to offer MozyEnterprise to its partners and customers outside of North America later in 2008. MozyEnterprise requires no minimum contract and imposes no fees for early service cancellation. Monthly subscription list prices are:

"Desktop/laptop - $5.25/mo. per desktop/laptop plus $0.70/mo. per gigabyte protected.
Windows Server - $9.25/mo. per supported Windows server plus $2.35/mo. per gigabyte protected."

According to Joe O'Melia, EMEA head of EMC's content management and archive division, EMC has an internal project called Frontier looking at pay-per-use charging models for software delivered as a service.